Welcome to the Templeborough Biomass Power Plant website where you can find out more about us, up to date information on the construction and operation of our power plant, answers to some of the questions we are asked and details of how our project has become a part of your local community. Please explore our website and keep coming back as we will regularly update the information for you. If you have any comments or questions that you can’t find the answer to then contact us and we’ll do our best to help.
Templeborough Biomass Power Plant
Generating
of green electricity
Supplying
homes with energy
Saving over
tons of CO2 a year
We generated our first renewable electricity at the plant during July 2018, it now generates around 41MW of green electricity which is enough to supply 78,000 homes and save over 150,000 tons of CO2 every year. It’s difficult to visualise how much that is but would look the same as 250,000 really big hot air balloons and the saving is equal to 1.75 million plane flights to Paris.
News
Greencoat acquires Templeborough biomass plant
Today (24th October 2019) Greencoat Capital is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Templeborough Biomass Power Plant Ltd (“TBPP”) from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (“CIP”). The investment…
Community benefits
Welcome to the Templeborough Biomass Power Plant website where you can find out more about us, up to date information on the construction and operation of our power plant, answers to some of the questions we are asked and details of how our project has become a part of your local community. Please explore our website and keep coming back as we will regularly update the information for you. If you have any comments or questions that you can’t find the answer to then contact us and we’ll do our best to help.
NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES
BOLSTERING THE LOCAL ECONOMY
FAQs
Does burning biomass emit more harmful greenhouse gases than coal?
No. Our biomass power plant will save in the region of 150,000 tons of polluting CO2 every year. The difference between using biomass and coal or other fossil fuels is simply that the carbon released through burning biomass has only very recently been absorbed from the environment so is part of the existing carbon cycle, the carbon from fossil fuels was absorbed millions of years ago so when released adds to the carbon in the atmosphere. Furthermore, waste wood not collected and used in this way is often disposed in landfill, where it decomposes releasing methane, a gas around 20 times more harmful to the environment than CO2.